Attitutor_® Services
(attitude + tutor = Attitutor_®)

"Attitude can be your best friend or your worst enemy."

Unknown (posted in the employees bathroom at a local restaurant.)

"Attitude is the one factor that can over come every disadvatage and defeat every advantage."

Don Berg, founder of Attitutor Services and author of Attitude First: A Leadership Strategy For Educational Success

Attitutor Services provides teachers and other human services professionals with:

• stress management skills,
• attitude adjustment coaching, and
• leadership consulting.

The dominant idea in nearly every human service field is the delivery of units. In education knowledge, skill, and information are the units delivered from the teachers to the students. In health care it is units of treatment, pharmaceuticals, or other procedures. Unfortunately, delivering units is merely a secondary charactereistic. In teaching the primary lesson every teacher teaches (regardless of the nature of their students, the subject they teach, or their individual level of expertise) is their own attitude. The dominant guiding metaphor in human services is focused on the delivery of units of one kind or another when what is truly needed is to have those units made secondary to the caring, nurturing, and kindness of personal relationships.

The Attitude First Philosophy provides a way for teachers and other human services professionals to do both, deliver the units to satisfy the system, but also ensure that there is caring, kindness and nurturance, too. It is not necessary to reject the units, but it is necessary to put them into the appropriate perspective. Units are secondary to the quality of the relationships that act as catalysts for the the units to become effective. Teachers who can establish a trusted intimacy with their students will always outperform those who are aloof and appear not to care. No matter how many units are delivered and accounted for by a test, if the relationship is of poor quality then the long term result will be a poor education.

Laughter Yoga: The Instant Attitude Adjustment

Custom 20-40 minute presentation introducing a basic definition of attitude and interspersed throughout with simple Laughter Yoga exercises that can be applied immediately with students, clients, or familily and friends to relieve stress and have fun.

Co-Creating Attitude Workshop

2-hour Workshop exploring the demands that participants face in their professional context, providing deeper insights into attitude, and engaging in a facilitated dialogue to expose and adjust attitudes that interfere with finding professional fulfillment.

Teaching With Attitude

8-16 hour workshop for advanced professional development in the Attitude First philosophy. Delves into the science and philosophy behind this approach to human services.

Attitude Adjustment Coaching

Individual coaching services to help you make attitude your best friend, enable you to overcome every disadvantage and get the fullest possible benefit from your advantages. You are the player in the game of your life, and just like a sports coach helping an athlete improve on their game, the Attitutor can help guide you to improve your ability to achieve goals and live a life full of opportunities for fulfillment.